Paul Begala actually said...

"This is not on the level. I'm not making the charges, by the way. I'm repeating what the house majority leader said, what the chairman of the committee said, what an investigator on the committee."

"I take care of McCarthy, his word, when he brags that this was political. I certainly take that air force major who was an investigator on the committee and says it's a partisan witch hunt."

"If they had a lick of sense, they would allow the legitimate investigations to go forth or they would look at the seven previous investigations, most of them done by Congress, one of them done by an i..."

"Look, the later he waits the harder this to put together the team."